OrangeClad
250+ Posts
I threw up in my mouth reading all the posts stating that UT shouldn't turn in NCAA violators. When these cheating schools do it and don't get caught, does anyone think they reduce their activity in subsequent years? Do you think they are at church some Sunday morning and suddenly get saved and realize the errors of their ways? And when these schools get away with cheating year after year, and in many cases improve the quality of their field play, what do you think the "immorally tempted" at others schools decide to do after they get beat time and time again by the cheating school who isn't getting caught? The whole thing becomes completely lawless and rules and structure fail to retain any meaning whatsoever.
This is a much bigger issue than just Darrell Scott. He is gone, period. But if CU cheated to get him, then perhaps they cheated to get the other highly touted recruits this year as well. If they cheated and with no repercussions, no complaints and no press, do you think they wouldn't go to do it all again next year? And then the next year maybe Tech, Okie Lite and Baylor because without cheating they can't get Darrell Scott's either and they don't like him running for 250 yards against them every year.
Face the facts, we got beat by Aggy for a decade because they loaded the field with purchased talent. OU has been beating us for years with bought talent. We all got to watch a lovely Cotton Bowl on January 1, 1991 where our team was embarrassed badly by a bought and paid for Miami team.
If these are pleasant memories for you, then yes, by all means renounce turning in cheaters and say you enjoy watching our team playing on a tilted field. These can be moral victories for us when we lose by less than 3 TDs. We can appeal to quaility recruits with good souls by telling them it's okay to lose against these teams, because they cheat so we still feel like winners and they should still come to UT. Maybe we can establish a non-cheaters, Honorary National Champonship Award. Our program could really prosper!
Look, the NCAA depends upon the schools policing each other. They don't have under-cover agents impersonating star high school athletes. They have very little teeth even with hard evidence, much less with no knowledge of anything. To cry out against turning in violators is the same as advocating complete chaos and abandonement of NCAA rules.
This is a much bigger issue than just Darrell Scott. He is gone, period. But if CU cheated to get him, then perhaps they cheated to get the other highly touted recruits this year as well. If they cheated and with no repercussions, no complaints and no press, do you think they wouldn't go to do it all again next year? And then the next year maybe Tech, Okie Lite and Baylor because without cheating they can't get Darrell Scott's either and they don't like him running for 250 yards against them every year.
Face the facts, we got beat by Aggy for a decade because they loaded the field with purchased talent. OU has been beating us for years with bought talent. We all got to watch a lovely Cotton Bowl on January 1, 1991 where our team was embarrassed badly by a bought and paid for Miami team.
If these are pleasant memories for you, then yes, by all means renounce turning in cheaters and say you enjoy watching our team playing on a tilted field. These can be moral victories for us when we lose by less than 3 TDs. We can appeal to quaility recruits with good souls by telling them it's okay to lose against these teams, because they cheat so we still feel like winners and they should still come to UT. Maybe we can establish a non-cheaters, Honorary National Champonship Award. Our program could really prosper!
Look, the NCAA depends upon the schools policing each other. They don't have under-cover agents impersonating star high school athletes. They have very little teeth even with hard evidence, much less with no knowledge of anything. To cry out against turning in violators is the same as advocating complete chaos and abandonement of NCAA rules.
